Format:
1 Online-Ressource (182 pages, [8] pages of plates)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813120241
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0813158974
,
9780813120249
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9780813158976
Content:
Kentucky was the last state in the South to introduce racially segregated schools and one of the first to break down racial barriers in higher education. The passage of the infamous Day Law in 1904 forced Berea College to exclude 174 students because of their race. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s black faculty remained unable to attend in-state graduate and professional schools. Like black Americans everywhere who fought overseas during World War II, Kentucky's blacks were increasingly dissatisfied with their second-class educational opportunities. In 1948, they financed litigation to end segre
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-173) and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813120241
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813120249
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hardin, John A., 1948- Fifty years of segregation Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997
Language:
English
URL:
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